I am a landscape contractor, consultant, designer and a novice writer. I've been in this industry for about 12 years at this writing. Since I am a true blue nature girl, I love many aspects of this career. I receive a lot of fulfillment from creating with nature's palette and turning raw land into something amazing and fulfilling for my clients!

I also have a desire to launch an additional career that allows me to work from home, increase my income, start fulfilling my own personal dreams and be able to help others on the same journey.

I enjoy hiking, mountain climbing, reading, landscape photography, health and nutrition, taking classes and continuing to gain more knowledge. My favorite place to hike is along the beaches of Southern California, and my greatest physical challenge was Mt. Whitney in a day!

I look forward to my experience with Wealthy Affiliate. I've done my due diligence and feel Wealthy Affiliate is a safe place to land. I look forward to connecting with this community. Success to all!

Hello Linda,
Thank you so much for the follow, I look forward to learning and growing my online business here at WA. If there is ever anything I can do to assist you, please don't hesitate to reach out. Wishing you much success as you move forward.

You certainly have a lot of wonderful experience you could leverage here. There are lots of people who would want to learn about consulting, designing, and especially landscaping. You can monetize all that in a way that is taught here.

I think you will enjoy the wide community of people here with like-minded goals to get ahead and do more.

Please have a look around, take a free lesson, and you will see the step by step nature of the instruction. It is very easy to follow, but if you get stuck, just ask questions.

Welcome to WA. It’s participation and persistence to get there and also takes lot of creative thought to process...
Yes, thank you for following. And I am hungry to get started.
I finding so much information for goals to success. This is surely a great opportunity with just what I need to develop independence and dreams.
Yes www is a big world brought together with WA...

Hi, Linda!
I once, was into selling landscape design, then moved away, and began my real career.
No, knowledge is ever lost, and I thought of this, as I transplanted, gardenias and Hibicus... allowing for the future growth.
Now, my gardening is done out back, and in this garden...of WA.
Hope you're enjoying, this green, as well.
Barb

You've got a lot of hobbies you can potentially create profits from. With our lessons here, just choose among those things that you love doing, and soon you will find yourself making the amount of money that you want. Good luck to you, and may you achieve your business goals. God bless!

Hello Linda,
Thank you for your following note and I will follow you back.
I, like yourself, appreciate a lot nature and beaches are my place of contact with mother nature. It is the place I missed the most living in Toronto.
The connection with our community members has being so rewarding to me that in such a short time they made me feel like I have being while with WA. I can assume at this point of being a WA member for a bit beyond a year your research about the group was 100% correct . I also will assume that you're flying high already .
I am a newbie with some interesting past experience in the e-commerce world and for this I joined WA , to acquire the necessary knowledge demanded to reach success on our field but I am still crawling.
Linda is was a pleasure having the opportunity to now you but we will exchange messages again.
A lot of success for you and have great hikes walking by the beaches of Southern California.
Success on both careers Linda,
Marcus

No probs Linda and if/when you read my blogs make sure you choose the ones that will help you in conjunction with whatever training you are currently taking.

By the way you may not be aware of this but it’s a good idea (only if you want to) to click the 'Like' icon within a comment if you like it as I have done with yours.
Obviously you don't have to click every single comment or you will be here all day doing nothing but.
But to click the ones you like that are replies to your own comments will be reflected in your WA ranking because it shows you are getting involved with the community.
Enjoy your Tuesday.
Robert
PS
Have you ever tried Freelancing with your writing?

Thanks again Robert for the advice! I didn’t know about the “like.” No I have not tried freelancing with my writing but it’s definitely a goal. I love to write. I’ve taken classes and have started developing contacts and resources but have not jumped into that arena yet. Any advice?

I am! So glad you told me about it. Thank you for following me. I've followed you back. I read you profile and what a great pursuit. I nursed all my babies and loved it! I wanted to give them the best start possible in life, and that was certainly a big part of it both physically and emotionally.

Hi Bob. Thanks for the message. I lived in Del Mar for a few years 3 houses from the bluff. I walked to Torrey Pines and back every morning before work. Absolutely loved that! Did you ever surf there?

WA is a great community and I'm sure you will have a good experience here. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help out. I'm not an expert, still working through the certification program, but I can help with what I've learned.

Thanks for the offer of help Linda, I'll probably take you up on it at some point, I never have been afraid to ask questions, as I have a keen interest in understanding things way to much to not ask!

Yes, I remember we would park and hike down at the very end of La Jolla and then hike north on the beach to below Torrey Pines (yes, past Blacks Beach) because there was a really great right break there. I also remember that's where we would surf with the dolphins! They would be riding in the waves with us . . . lot of good memories! Thank you.

Hi Linda and thank you for following me! I always wanted to do landscape designing. I thought it would be so fun to do and I love going to the nursery's. Actually dangerous for me as I want it all. LoL. So with that, it is a pleasure to meet you and follow you back.

Welcome to premium WA. Good fortune with your site. Persevere is the motto to follow even though for some it`s like walking through heavy wet clay at times.!
When you are comfortable with your site .....look at mine , make a comment or give feedback and I will gladly reciprocate.https://secretfranceholiday.com

Thank you for contacting me. I took a peek at your site. I'd love to go there! Looks like nature at its best! After I have a little more experience, I'd be happy to have you evaluate my site and give you feedback on yours.

Thank you Sheldon! It was not a tough decision. I did check out several affiliate marketing programs, but I really like the low hype, no continuting upsales, and the serious nature of WA. I am overwhelmingly impressed with the leaders and the time they take to be available to mentor as well as many others in the program. I'm also impressed with the community here, their willingness to help, and I've not felt a competitive nature at all. No disappointments here! Thanks for contacting me.

Thanks very much for following me...
It's great to make contact with you & I wish you all the best & much success with your internet marketing business!
If there is anything I can do to help you out please let me know...
Best wishes...
Steve

Brad here again. I just wanted to followup with a specific example of an advanced strategy you can take advantage of here at Wealthy Affiliate that is not possible anywhere else.

A somewhat little known fact about Wealthy Affiliate is that the internal blog system here ranks highly in Google. If you are in your profile page reading this, then you should see a "My Blog" link at the top of the page. Go there and simply click on the big blue "Create a new blog" button to create your first blog post.

This is different from your own free blogs that you will create here using SiteRubix. The most well known aspect of the My Blog feature is that all your followers within Wealthy Affiliate will be notified of your new posts. That is how most people think about it and how they use it.

However, with the My Blog feature the blog posts you create show up directly on http://my.wealthyaffiliate.com. The posts are accessible there by anyone (no need for them to be a WA member). According to the backlink checker I use, http://my.wealthyaffiliate.com has over 35,000 backlinks pointing to it from other websites. Type site:my.wealthyaffiliate.com into Google and you will find it has over 400,000+ pages indexed in Google. This makes it an authority site and gives it ranking power in Google.

Even better, when non-members access your WA blog posts from google you automatically get credit if they signup for Wealthy Affiliate (e.g. your WA cookie gets set even without your affiliate link, you get credit based on the fact that they visited your WA blog post).

And it gets even better. When non-members visit your WA "My Blog" posts, if they click on a link on that page it automatically opens a signup form for Wealthy Affiliate, where you get credit for that referral in the WA affiliate program (with average commissions of $118). Even if they don't click on a link, that signup form pops up after 15 or 20 seconds of arriving on that page. Outside visitors can either signup or close the popup and continue reading your blog post. You can see how this works by creating your own WA blog post and visiting that page in a browser where you are not logged in to WA.

There is no other program out there that allows you to write posts directly on their authority site and make commissions from those posts. In your other promotions you can link to your My Blog posts without using your affiliate link, since you get credit anyway. There can be various advantages to this, as you will learn in later training here at WA.

The only caveat to this strategy is your My Blog posts should be helpful to the other WA members. You can't blog about dog training for instance, it should be about affiliate marketing, blogging and online business topics.

However, since it is all optimized to support you in making money from the WA affiliate program, this isn't really a downside. Just use your SiteRubix niche sites to promote niche topics like dog training, and use your WA Blog as (one way) to promote the WA affiliate program. For example, you could use one of your free Site Rubix sites for a favorite niche topic, and one for an online business related niche to promote the WA affiliate program.

Hi, Linda, it's great to meet you. Welcome to WA, you're going to love it here. There is so much to learn. I wanted to thank you for following me and to let you know I'm following you right back. All the best to you on your journey here. Enjoy the ride.
Ann

I'm glad you made it! After you begin to see the powerful tools, training, and remarkable opportunities available here, I know you will be glad also.

My name is Brad, and like you, I joined Wealthy Affiliate not too long ago. In my over 10 years of earning money online, I have never seen anything that comes close to what Wealthy Affiliate has to offer. Beyond giving you everything you need to succeed as an affiliate in your area of interest, you can also promote Wealthy Affiliate as an affiliate:

With a strong recurring commission structure, and a product that people love, this is a dream affiliate program that you now have access to as a Starter Member. Although it is worth noting that the commissions are double for Premium Members, so the premium upgrade is worth considering for that reason alone if you decide to pursue this aspect of Wealthy Affiliate. To learn more, click the black "Affiliate Bootcamp" button at the top left of this page.

If you are new to making money online, it will take you awhile to fully appreciate everything that Wealthy Affiliate has to offer. If you have been struggling to get things working with your online business, then be prepared for some "light bulb moments" as you go through the training and begin to understand how the Wealthy Affiliate platform can accelerate your results.

I will follow up with you in a few days to give you a concrete example of an excellent advanced strategy that is possible here at Wealthy Affiliate. This is a strategy that is simply not possible anywhere else (check this page for that update in a few days).

In the meantime, I would suggest you take the following 3 steps:

1. Complete your profile with a brief description of your goals, and of course with a nice photo of your smiling face! This makes a huge difference when interacting with the community here.

2. For a quick look at how easy it is to setup your first website (which is the basis for any online business), I highly recommend you take a look at Kyle's excellent video on creating your first website right here within Wealthy Affiliate in under 30 seconds (yes, this really is possible!): Create a Website in Under 30 Seconds 3. Complete the free training lessons and videos to get started with your first niche website. Just click on the green "Get Started Here" button on the top left side of the page.

If you have any questions along the way, take advantage of the live chat and the question area at the bottom of each training module. There are many members here willing to help out.

Even before that however, the search bar at the top of the page is great for finding answers. That is what I use the most. WA has been in business for over 10 years, so almost any question you can think of has been asked and answered already. The search bar is great for finding those answers.

Welcome to Wealthy Affiliate, Linda! I think you’ll find that this is a great place to be a part of! The training is second to none – tons of tutorials, training videos and Entrepreneur Certification courses. The first 10-lesson course is free to Starter Members but it tells you everything you need to know to get your website up and running. You’ve probably been pointed in that direction but here’s the link to the first lesson Online Entrepreneur Certification - Getting Started (Level 1) I highly recommend that you jump into the lesson and course!

If I can do anything to help, please don't hesitate to let me know. I'm here to help!